Chris Bjorin got his last 4,000 in before the first draw and was at risk against both blinds. Yuval Bronshtein and Mark Roland each took three, while Bjorin drew one. Two checks later, Bronshtein took three, Roland two, and Bjorin again one. On the last draw, Bronshtein took two and Roland one.
Bjorin looked at his card, chuckled in exasperation, and asked for a final card.
"Slowly but surely, we're catching up," Roland said with a laugh.
Bronshtein checked and folded to a final bet, and Roland said he had eight-six, fanning .
Bjorin flashed what looked like a nine-seven, and the Swedish legend took his leave.
Brian Tate was in the hijack and raised. Daniel Negreanu was in the cutoff and made it three bets. Tate then re-raised to four bets, and Negreanu called. Tate drew one card, and Negreanu drew two cards.
Tate bet, and Negreanu moved all in for his remaining 900. Negreanu took one card, and Tate stood pat.
Both players stood pat on the final street, and Tate tabled a wheel. Negreanu flashed his cards before they hit the muck, and Tate won the pot and got the elimination.
One day down and two remain in Event #28: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, and 61 players are still in contention for just a hair under $110,000 and a piece of gold World Series of Poker jewelry.
They've advanced through a field that started at 326, and they're just a couple of tables away from the money as 49 places will be paid. The money bubble should burst fairly early here on Day 2, and we'll likely see a final table reached as well before the chips are placed in the bags once again.
After a 10-level grind on Wednesday, another 10 levels are on tap for Day 2, starting with betting limits of 1,200/2,400 and progressing up to 10,000/20,000 if all goes as planned on the WSOP structure sheet. Each level will be one hour, as usual, and there's a one-hour dinner break scheduled for after Level 16.
When play gets under way at 2 p.m. local time, Mark Roland will be the man to catch with a stack of 116,600. Plenty of hungry, talented players will be coming for the top spot, including Jon "PearlJammer" Turner (75,500), limit crusher Ian Johns (64,400), Rep Porter (56,900), Shaun Deeb (49,000), Rob Mizrachi (38,300), Dzmitry Urbanovich (37,900) and Daniel Negreanu (19,900).
Once the first card is in the air, PokerNews will be bringing all of the live updates right here, so don't go anywhere.
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